Beta Cygni

Celestial Information

Name, meaning and Constellation: Beta Cygni, Cygnus. The name of the star was originally Minqār al-Dajājah, the hen's beak as in Arabic texts.

Other name(s) and meaning: Albireo (this name is the result of a few misunderstandings of the original Arabic form since Latin scholars thought that the name came from a kind of herb, and translated it into ab ireo (from ireus). Later this was treated as a misprint of an Arabic term and transcribed as al-bireo.